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why No. a New const,tnsiono

1t Is proposed two years hence to celebrate
the one hundredth anniversary of the adop-
ton Of the American constitution. Would
not the best observance of that event be the
meeting of another convention to recast our
fundamental law! In the state of New York
there is a constitutional provision that a new
convention shall meet every twenty years to
make desirable alterations in the organic law.
How much more necessary is it to readiust
the constitution Of the United States to the
changed conditions of our national existence?
The constitution Of 1889 was made for 3,0oO,-
GOO OF people, scattered along the Atlantic
s~eacoast, east of the Allegheny mountains.
This was before the era Of steam, electricity,
the cotton gin, the spinning jenny and all our
marvellous improvements in machinery and
the industrial arts. We are now a mighty
nation of 6Q,0o0.0o0 people, extending from
the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean; we are
within eight days Of Europe by steam, and
are In instantaneous communication with the
remotest parts of the earth by electricity.
We have been forced from time to time
to amend our constitution, but the machinery
Tor doing SO Is 80 complicated that it il
nihoop AupoSSlUlS 10 mako any radicaJ
change except during a national con.
%yulsion, such as a civil war. 1t is confessed
that our constitution has broken down in
many important respects. The electoral col
lege FOR instance is not at all what it was orig
tnally designed to be. We are in danger Of
civil war whenever there is closely contested
presidential election. There are tremendous
problems ahead Of US, and the constitution.
which was satisfactory In the Nineteenth
century, might prove entirely inadequate in
the Twentieth century. At any rate, it
would be no harm to discuss such reforms and
improvements as would improve the working
machinery of our government, and rectify
some OF the evils that are justly complained
o. The discussion OF the provisions of orr
Fundamental law would elevate the whole
tone of political life in this country. It
would give us higher questions for debate in
our newspapers than those that pertain to
party politics. Why not a convention to re-
wise the constitution of the United States?
lu r. NJ
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-11
Moral Recovery.

On the other hand there are so many
who, at q period or other in their
livea, have gone very far astray from
their original innocence, that it ia most
necessary to counteraot the tendency to
despair, which the spirits of evil do their
ntmost to foster. 10 the soul which,
having once erred, has now been Awak-
sned, they whisper, there ls no hope for
such as you. You have put your hano
to the sign manual which gives you over
10 us, and We confidently claim the
bond. We have PIT our mark upon you,
and for the rest OF yonr life you are ours.
The accusing spirits are Identical with
the tempting spirits, only they have
dropped their masks. And, because they
would fain become also the destroying
spirits, they do all they can to drive
sinful souls, either. on the one hand, TO
desperation and defiance, or, on the
other hand, to that overwhelming
melancholy which most often takes the
form of apathy, but which also ends
sometimes in madness. and sometimes
in sslf.inhictsd death.
1t is well then to remember for our
-couragement, that many have begun
their lives unworthily and even have
deeply fallen, WHO have yet been recov.
cred; that many have strayed into evil
paths, and yet by the sovereignty of di-
vine grace, have reused themselves TO
the resOlute and tremendous effort OF
recovery, and have become shining saints
OF God.
/ will not dwell upon the examples
which Scripture gives us, because they
will be familiar to all. 1t will suffice to
mention two cases of men who were
saved by a timely repentance.
Such o n was David. From the IN
nocent nobleness of his youth, he fell
into the crimes OF ayulgar Oriental des-
pot stained with lust and blood; and be
had to endure the retribution which
shattered into ruin tho former peace OF
his home. Yet, upon his utter repen-
tance, God gave him once more o clean
heart, and renewed q right spirit within
him. He TOOK not Bis Holy Spirit from
him.
Such, too, in q different way, was Paul.
He has told rs, In tones Of anguish, that
he was the least of the apostles, not meet
to be called an apostle, because he per-
secuted tho church OF God. he confeeses
that he was once q persecutor and q
blasphemer and injurious. He describes
the desperate moral struggles which
agitsted for long years his inner life.
Yet he won the final victory, and became
the greatest Of all the missionaries who
helped to convert the world to Christ
FdTraT.
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MRS. LOUISA A

A Popular Woman Editor-what She
Has Accomplishments Large Salary.
Especial Correspoadence.l
New YoRK, Feb. when such highly
esteemed American writers as Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps, Rose Terry Cooke, Marion
Harland. Jennie June, Harriet Prescott Spot
ford, Josiah Aliens Wife, Christine Terhune
Herrick and Mary Abbott Rand become not
only the leading, but, all Of them, regular
contributors to an illustrated monthly, that
periodical must have rare special attractions
and unusually strong claims upon the edu-
Gated women of this country.
To secure and retain these ~favorite authors,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-11

New Blood and New Kssues Needed.
A most significant editorial recently
appeared In the Kansas City Journal. a
stalwart Of the stalwarts among news
papers, ranking. in this respect. longside
the Chicago or the New York Tribune.
II 10 not merely q straw showing which
way the wind blows; it 10 more like a
saw-log in the current. It is entitled
"Forcing q Breakup"
"Wlse men look forward to IN early
break IN the present political iines-and
one OF the causes is that We have neither
statesmen nor political leaders among our
public men. We read of a horse being
eligible TO the consular dignity at q
certain peroid of Roman history. That
peroid seems to be ours now. What 1t
requires to make . great man in 1886 in
these United States is q retail commodi-
ty altogsther-the qualities are not
"bsaring" the market by their Rbund-
ance.
1--WE showeda few days ago, where
there would be q revenue surplus in six
months Of fromtwelve to fifteen millions
q month, with no bonds to retire or
pat it back into circulation--the results
OF which are simply i~ncalcuiable upon
the business OF the country, ii not RENEE
died. Yet congress has barely fifty-hve
working days anc no movement made.
Mr.. Morrison tried his plan, and was
beaten in . full vote OF the House.
Now, he says, he will oppose any other
plan, and "a he has 8 majority OF the
ways aud means committee with him, he
proposes to prevent any other remedy
being adopted. And SO the leaders are
ranged On the n side or the other,
refusing to eat the hay and refusing to
let others OF il in their way.
"The fact il, medlocrity has got poss-
sssi0n OF the national capital, and the
leaders are incapable OF leading, Mean.
while the country goes on, developing
she immense industries and commerce
of an active and intelligent nation of
sixty millions of people, and these in
terests will soon come in collision with
the men WHO call themselves statesman,
but who, in fact, arc not even good
politicians. And when the collision
comes there is no doubt as to the result
1.-The men must give way to the
interests OF the people. We are glad Of.
II, or rather We would be glad II il were
certain that there are men behind capa-
bic for the places to be vscated-or, has
the dry rot extended to the body polite.
This Is the pessin1istic view, but history
tells us that % Q rule, there are always
men for the time and the emergency, and
it may be that the country has simply
outRrown the capacity of the men III pow.
q. who got there on issues q quarter OF o
century old. At any rate, 1t 10 certain
disaster to keep those we have, and there
10 . chance TO better things by change.
20 let the deluge come. and let the dead
timbers be swept ont and new tried.
Wien men won't do, the people must"
We are glad to announce to our per-
picked friend Of the Journal, that We
5sye on hand both the new isssle Leeded
and the men and women in whose veins
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bs
Some apprehension has been felt at the in
reference of our government in the affairs
OF private railway corporations. But it
should be remembered that outside of Great
Britain the governments Of Europe are in
great part owners of the railways. This is
true of France, Belgium, Holland, Prussia.
Russia, Austria and Italy. OF course there
are some private companies in all those coun-
tries, but the governments arc generally the
owners OF the principal railway lines, and
supervise the private corporations. And, on
the whole, this government ownership has
worked very well. Freights are lower on the
continent than in Great Britain or the United
Etates, accidents rarely occur, and then the
profits OF the various systems accrue to the
national treasures instead of to private in
dividuals. Beginning with Jay Gould and
the Vanderbilts, there are probably some two
hundred persons in the United States who
have built up enormous fortunes out of orr
railway systems. There is no corresponding
class OF railroad magnates on continental
Europe, though there are quite a number in
England, where, as in the United States. the
roads are owned by private corporations. OF
course, In many respects, our railways are in
advance OF those of Europe. The latter has
nothing comparable to our sleeping car ac-
commodations, and then were our government
to have built our roads, there would have
been no such rapid construction as we have
witnessed under the spur of private enter
prise. We have now 10000 miles of road in
the United States-nearly as much as all El-
rope combined. In a very few years we will
have more miles of road than all the rest of the
world together. II is estimated that during
the year 1887 we shall build nearly Il, 600
miles of new railroads, which would make
this the greatest year Of the kind in our his
tory. G. G.
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TO U o e
MARY Z. O. wYrrH.

MARY Z. O. wYETH.
Do right, tho all the world entreat to wrong.
ino pieasureA with her sweet, seductive song
Lure thy charmed footsteps from the narrow
way,
In devious paths, fower-edged, to step and
stray.
Drying and calling. life is s.H OF sorrow.
Eh1oy t~o-day-repcnt, if need, to-mcrrew."
Ahi heed her not. Her sun goes down in night.
Do right, tho hammon with compelling voice
bioA thee. young man, Ia thy young strength
Boy, sell. get gain. hoard Iuore, gather pelf.
yustie and crowd, care only for thyselL,
Harden thy heart to Mercy's gentle call,
Ell al thy barns All! if this life were all!
n God of thee thy soul require this night.
Who's then shall these things be7 Young man.
do right.
Do right. tho Fame with trumpet call allure
from honors path, from the plain path and
q conscious virtue. Heed not thou the call,
10 hinder thy free course Be true. live pnre
anu thy good lite in blessing shall endure
When flames poor lsurels shall have felt
deaths blight.
Oh, strong in youth Young man, be good, do
right.
The World, the Flesh, the Devil, these are they
mno gonpt, pegulie deceive their easy prey.
Too latel oh youthi thou'lt learn how they
Naught can they give like that they take away,
Iced not their call, Resist the power of wrong.
Heed thou the Christ. and in Hia strength be
Enreiilhyself beneath His cross of might,
And in.ais name, young man. be GOOD. 90 right.
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nAKoTA REpORTs-yelunss 4 sad ~.
Proc Ssts A.ddreMs Bower 4 Ki2ssbssys
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-11

as members OF her
corps of entertain
ing instructors, is
the task to which
Mrs. Louisa Knapp
has devoted herself.
Fully approaching
the necessities and
practical economy
of American house
holds, she kn W
that her thousands
Of readers in every
section Of this land
of homes would be
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-11

When Very Young Children are
deprived of their natural nonrishment,
it is difficult to procure a proper substi-
tute therefor; hence the alarming NOR
tally among infants. Mellin's Food,
which is recommended by the highest
medical authorities, has been prepared
to meet this very want.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-11

COURSES the new blood to reyivify the
body polite, and prove to the world
that the dry rot has not penetrated to
its vitals.- Union. StgndE.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-11
9aily gress and 9akotaiaa
w. G. I. U. Department.
III. LOUISE TANNER. EDITOR.

1.-THE friends OF prohibition arc cordially in
vited to contribute to this department. Com
munications to be available must be brief. Ad-
dress the editor, P. O. Drawer. 1851
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-11

Silver plated bon bon trays, with tongs,
have been introduced at the fashionable
luncheon parties in New York with undoubt-
ed success.
, 1887-12-29

Talk about editors having hard times;
about the worst l ever had was when an
other fellow and myself ran n paper in
Tennessee. We were so hard up that We
couldn't afford n fire ut our Office in win
ter time, II We actually mad 10 warmth
in our apartments. But we were not dis
mayed. Why Because we both had an
nual passes on the railroad, and there
was nothing to prevent us from boarding
the train when it came through in the
evening and riding on it till midnight.
Then we would get of, wait for tho re-
turn train and ride back again. We took
turns on the watch so thai we wouldn't be
carried past our place Mt A O'Clock in the
morning. Yet there are worse places to
run a paper han Tcnnessee.-Arkansaw
Traveller.
, 1887-12-29

John Adams, though inaugurated in
Philadelphia, was the first president to
establish the functions of government at
the newly built federal city on the banks
Of the Potomac. Mrs. Adams was the
first presidents wife to occupy the eXecu-
tive mansion. On New Years Day of 1901
she received with her husband the Off
cials of the government and society of the
infant capital. The residence of Mrs.
Adams at the executive mansion was but
brief. Her husbands first election was
by a bare majority, and his defeat for re-
election limited his residence at Washing
ton to four months. In hat time, how
ever, Mrs. Adams left the impress of her
strong individuality upon the social insti-
buttons of the capital and upon the do
nestle surroundings of the presidential
Office to n greater degree than did the
president upon the official surroundings
of the Office. Mrs. Adams i~nnugurated
the social customs established by Mrs.
Washington in New York and continued
in Philadelphia, and which have been
practically adhered 10 ever since. Among
the ladies of the executive mansion Mrs.
Adams will always hold a prominent
place rs q woman of extraordinary men
tai force and n knowledge of public events
beyond the average standard of men in
public life.-"Randolph" in Philadelphia
Times.
, 1887-12-29
COPPER PRODUCTION.

In 1886 there was produced in the
United States from the copper mining
districts OF the United States l5S, 600, 600
pounds of copper metal. OF this amount
the Lake Superior district produced
10000, 900, the Montana and Butte City
district Sc. 26S, 900 pounds, and the All
iona district 5000, 900 pounds. All the
other districts combined produced an
aggregate of 5000, 900. The absence of
such impurities as arsenic, anthony and
bismuth in the lake copper gives it the
reputation of being the best copper put
on the market, and in consequence it
commands a higher price than other
grades.
IL London the copper which has for
some time been the standard for regulat-
ing the price has been that produced IN
Chill, and is known as Chill bars. The
copper is not as good as the lake copper,
and the percentage Of copper in the bars
is about 90. These Chill bars arc used as
n basis of speculation and large quantities
of them have been stored in London, up
IN which storage certificates are issued.
These are called warrants and are regu-
larly dealt in the metal exchange. They
bear about the same relation to the price
ofcopper as pipe line certificates do to pc
troleum. In this country Calument &
Hecla copper is the standard of price,
other conner selling from to . cents
below it, according to grade.
, 1887-12-29
The Cheapest DRY Goods
House on Earth.

The largest and cheapest Cloak house
west of New Jersey, and now that it has
been made eaiser te get your goods to you,
we are going to make it easier for you to
get the goods. THE GOLDEN EAGLE
is always right up to the scratch. We
have read OF people advertising that they
struck Bedrock, and we have sometimes
thought SO for a while, but we never
struck a rock that we did not break
through and get under-we never get
prices o low that we can't get them lower
by busting in larger quantities, paying
promptly and working harder.
We are now selling Cloaks at prices
that you never heard of. The beauty OF
our business is that We know it all over
and all through. and
, 1887-12-29

TIE sudden death of Governor John s.
Marmaduke, will remove from his native
state of Missouri a very astute politician
and highly popular gentleman. Governor
Marmaduke of an old Missouri
family. He was brilliantly educated at
Harvard and afterward graduated from
West Point. lie emerged from the war
with a record for 1ashing bravery and the
title of brigadier general.
, 1887-12-29
he only thing that pays
. taxiuf other fntLai gfuu
An Editorial Opinion.

Ofall the beastly, outrageous, disgust
ing, unnatural, degenerate, deformed, ill
gotten, misconceived, unlawful, illegiti-
mate, diabolical, hypochondriacal, incon.
gruous, erratical, n%onsensical, heterogene
Gus, heteroclitical, dough headed, brain,
spawned, idiotic, snidish, incomprehensi.
bic conglomeration of typographical bulls
ever perpetrated upon an innocent and
unoffending public the indescribable mass
appearing in the Boise City Republican
of a recent date takes the cake.
, 1887-12-29

IT is said that Ella Wheeler Wilcox
believes in prenatal influence. She says
she was made a poet before she was born,
by her mothers devotion to Lalla Roukh
at hat period. Mrs. Wilcox may GER
calmly lay claims to poetic ability, but in
prose composition, which she has taken to
very kindly of late. her style is difuse,
and the treatment of her subjects slipshod
and superficial to an alarming degree.
, 1887-12-29

THERE is tin enough in the Black Hills
of Dakota to supply the world, and yet
the owners of the properly had to go to
free trade England to get the s.. 900, 900
necessary to develop it. This means pen
MES for protected Americans and pounds
for unprotected Englishman, says the
Omaha World
, 1887-12-29

Paper bedclothes are made at n factOrs'
in New Jersey. They are doubled sheets
Of manilla paper, strengthened with Irvine,
and valuable by reaslN of the peculiar
properties Of paper rs II non-conductor Of
heat. They have II warmth preserving
power far ont Of proportion to their thick.
ness and wcight-Buston Budget.
, 1887-12-29

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, %soitens the gums, al
lays the pain, cures wind collie. and is the
best remedy fer diarrhea. Twenty-Five
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, 1887-12-29
PITH IN PARAGRAPHS.
A Cold leather scheme.
TChIpnpn uarall

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be along with a plug of free tobacco to
clothe your protected limbs withal.
, 1887-12-29

NEW YORK WOrId,I
Some ~doggerel in an old Wing journal
undertakes to defend the war tariff by
saying that
The only thing that pays
Is taXin' other folks stuff.
Levying II tax on other folks stuff
and paying it yourself must be a very
profitable enterprise. This is what pro-
lection does.
, 1887-12-29

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, 1887-12-29

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, 1887-12-29
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, 1887-12-29
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